Adding helpers to a westbound oil train just outside of Blackfoot MT, for the trip into the mountains in the background

These are two out of three model SD70ACe locomotives that will do tests pulling trains MRS Logistica.

7825 east crosses the normally westbound Ciennega Creek Bridge over Davidson Canyon. If there are no west bounds around, the dispatcher will route a heavy eastbound over the westbound track.

An Eastbound Guilford container train runs along the Canisteo River with 3 D&H units, led by a sharp looking lightning stripe.

Xrot 9213 together with bernina-crocodile in action

The good old 99 leads an unusual, but welcomed southbound move with a unit train of empty well cars bound for storage on the Apache. The fact that this railroad can afford to operate at all is ast... (more)

A Susquehanna SD40T-2 runs light westbound across Maywood Avenue into the setting sun.

A westbound Union Pacific coal train claws its way up the hill out of Bond on the Craig Branch.

Pan Am Railways operated a deadhead Office Car Special (OCS) trip on August 19, running the train from East Deerfield, Massachusetts, to Hoosick Junction, New York, where it was turned and returne... (more)

WSOR 4053, 4007, 4010, STBX 3139, 3128, 3151, & 3114 are heading to Horicon on a warm, stormy skied summer evening. The STBX units are to be repainted at Horicon, for a railroad I have no idea...

A BNSF SD70MAC passes a loaded UP coal train climbing the hill in notch 8 in Wyoming's Powder River Coal Basin.

A westbound auto train accelerates through Ontario, CA behind three 4-axle GE's. Leading the consist, 7859 was one of only two SP GE's to receive failed SPSF merger colors.

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: Yeah, yeah, we know this was a former Pennsy unit, but you have got to see it lit for Christmas.

Snow Blower - EMD's version of the common snow blower. Not quite a Toro, T4's lead unit does its best to clear State Hwy 59, of the previous nights snowfall... Get ready to get wet!

Due to a combination of a harsh winter, booming oil industry, and aggressive trackwork, Amtrak's Prized train, the Empire Builder detours over the KO Sub. While the eastbound train 8 still uses i... (more)